So from all of these demos, and the ones that I have seen over the years when I was working in other capacities in the industry, I feel pretty confident as to how to answer a question that I get from time to time. HR Technology demos hHR Tech salesAnd it is particularly busy this time of year as I try to narrow down the field to make the selections/invitations for the show in October.

Recent Demos. Sometimes, it feels like Demo Central around here. We generally see a couple of software demos a day. Here’s the best of them from the past couple of weeks. Bunchball. The recent Gartner headline about an 80% failure rate in Gamification projects was released during Bunchball’s customer showcase. Their approach to enterprise gamification is a straightforward one thing at a time method. Visionary and charismatic CEO who is betting that the real value of gamification is increased Loyalty. GoodJob. One more referral system. In HirePad. UK centric.

Great New Demos. Here’s who we’ve been talking to this week. HireVue Presents CodeVue. Finally, one of the video interviewing players demonstrates that they get that it has to be about more than video. Video itself is free. That means that the video interviewing players all have to scramble to identify the real value add. HireVue hit this one out of the park. CodeVue is a method for scoring code and validating the identity of the person who generated it. Home Run. When I Work. This Minneapolis based startup is gaining ground at the ultra low end of the scheduling market.

This Week’s Demos and Updates. ebsta This clever little app is a browser plug in that compares a profile you find online with your inhouse resume database. It notifies you if the profile you’re currently viewing already exists in your database. Currently offered in the Bullhorn and Salesforce ecosystems, the tool elegantly solves a frustrating problem. In the process it encourages recruiters to use the systems on their desktop It’s hard to understand why this functionality isn’t embedded in any environment that you move data in and out of.

The best SC’s are truly rare, have extraordinarily hard jobs, and in my humble opinion are actually quite underpaid for what they bring to the table. I was attending the HR Demo show in December (put on by the one and only John Sumser ) and it was really quite interesting watching back to back to back demos. It was even more intriguing to listen to the commentary and watch the twitter feeds at the show. Personally, I watched 3 demos (I was only there for the first day). Not in any order, there was a horrific demo of a terrific product. Plugin by Taragana.

demo looks, you’d better start poking under the covers to see how much and what kind of technical debt, especially design debt but that code debt matters too, your prospective vendor is dragging around. To detect the presence of potentially harmful technical debt in HRM software, and here I’m speaking of design rather than the coding debt, which is much harder to detect, here are some important and easily observed/ferreted out clues: Is their so-called modern software built upon a contemporary object model ? Where Does Technical Design Debt Originate? Shall I go on? .
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But you can figure out all those details by yourselves using my scripted scenario demo process discussed here with and with much more here as applied to your particular business needs or areas of specific interest. So instead of a feature/function/architecture/object model play by play — although I may yet do some version of this — I thought I’d share the list of emerging capability topics that seems to cover much of what I’ve been hearing, seeing, and thinking as I’ve gone through zillions of vendor briefings and demos and integrated their perspectives with my own.
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First, let me say that scripted scenarios are not going to go away - the vendor demos will. In this case, you would have the car salesperson drive (demo) the car for you while you sat in the passenger seat and asked questions. Instead of vendors doing scripted scenario-based demos, I see vendors setting up "sandboxes" where customers can run their own scripted scenarios with coaching and assistance from the vendors as needed. Naomi Bloom's recent posts ( here and here ) on scripted scenarios were a good memory jog to write this post. Consider the following scenario.
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Home About SaaS Tech Tips Psst Customers – Some Software Demo Tips For You by Michael Krupa on April 7, 2010 In a previous post I gave out some software demo tips for vendors. Since then I have participated in another round of software demos and this time I have some tips for all you customers out there. Customers also needs some tips to get the most out of software demos. When questions arise during the demo about the scenario, the owner should be prepared to answer that question. Otherwise the demo is likely start very late. What did I forget?
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